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Thanks! But I have a doubt.. If “say” CAN´T be used to give information, how come we can say something like “She said she had been studying the whole afternoon, but actually she had been out” This kind of sentence is possible, isn´t it?

We can use ‘say’ to give information but if we want to include a personal pronoun or name we need to use ‘tell’. Thus, ‘She said she had been studying’ is correct, but if we want to say who she informed we need to use ‘tell’: ‘She told them she had been studying … ‘